Animals in art by British born artist Eileen Mayo who moved to Australia in 1953. Living from 1906 to 1994, she worked in many artistic mediums. Studied art in London.
Category: Posters
Posters from the golden age of passenger steamships. From the United States National Archives.
Go on a cruise even if it is just in your dreams. Posters for Italian cruise lines from a while back, mostly from the 1930s. All of these by Giovanni Patrone who lived from 1904 to 1963 and was a painter and poster designer in Genoa.
Close your eyes and you will be in India if you daydream long enough. Travel posters from the 1930s by British commercial artist Gerald George Wynne Trevredyn (Gerald T. Tait) who lived from 1891 to 1954.
Promotional posters from when riding a bicycle was new and exciting. French but bicycling was fun everywhere. ca. 1900. All from the website of Swann Galleries where they are part of a current auction.
Promotional posters for events connected with the 1936 Summer Olympics held in Berlin. Various German graphic designers. There were many very talented graphics people in Germany at that time.
Getting out and about in a Britain that’s not too far away. Sir Herbert Alker Tripp, artist. Living from 1883 to 1854, he was an artist with a day job at Scotland Yard in London. Much of his work was commissioned by the Great Western Railway to be used in posters.
Trolley cards sponsored by Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum. American. ca. 1951. Otis Shepard, graphic designer (1894-1969). Did posters too.
Posters with animals. British. Charles Paine, graphic designer. Living from 1895 to 1967, he started out training with stained glass but ended up designing posters instead. Most of these having been created for the Regent’s Park Zoo in London.
Posters advertising various household items. 1940s. Swiss. Niklaus Stoecklin, graphic designer/artist (1896-1982).
